Two Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) Party Cherla Local Guerilla Squad (LGS) members surrendered to the District Police and 141 Battalion (Bn) Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) Police in Bhadradri Kothagudem District of Telangana on March 28, reports Telangana Today. The surrendered Maoists were Madakam Kosa alias Jeevan of Jaggaram in Yetapaka Mandal (administrative sub division) of Andhra Pradesh, and Sodi Gangi alias Sodi Lakma of Kistarampadu in Cherla Mandal in the district, Superintendent of Police (SP) Sunil Dutt said. Kosa joined Maoist party in 2019 at the behest of Shabari Local Operating Squad (LOS) ‘commander’ Tulasi. Working as a member of Cherla LGS he carried a BGL weapon. Gangi joined Maoists in the year 2019 as a Dalam (armed squad) member in Cherla LGS and carried a rifle in the Dalam, SP said. Both the surrendered cadres involved in several bomb-blasting incidents from 2019 to 2021 in Cherla area, extremist violence cases and Tekulagudem exchange of fire in Tarrem Police Station limits of Chhattisgarh, he noted.